ENOVIA V5 VPM provides robust customization options that maximize environment flexibility and ease
of use to accelerate the ability of users to effectively leverage and optimize relational design
processes.

ENOVIA DMU3 delivers enriched interference detection and analysis features to its real time
Digital Mockup & Decision Support capabilities. This ensures the spatial integrity of the mock-up
and provides users with more accurate analysis on specific product configurations. Enhancements to
ENOVIA DMU deliver a more natural and fluid human manikin to product and environment simulations to
enable more efficient and more accurate studies.

ENOVIA LCA4 provides more flexible business process support through real-time process optimization
via ad hoc review and dynamic participants with E-PM based processes.

Accessibility by people with disabilities

ENOVIA VPLM addresses the management and exploitation of intellectual property accumulated during
the complete product development process, from product specification and definition through
manufacturing process and resource definition and simulation. The development of all products is
based on observed industry best practices such as widespread use of 3D, interference management,
relational design, early manufacturing involvement and target-based development. The best practices
are based on Dassault Systemes' V5 architecture and make extensive use of rich product, process and
resource (PPR) information.

ENOVIA V5 VPM offers a comprehensive, streamlined approach to managing the creation and maturation
of the virtual product definition from the highest level of product hierarchy (product lines) to
the lowest level of feature usage (geometric substitutes and alternatives).

With ENOVIA V5 VPM, engineers are able to extend the power of CATIA V5 knowledgeware and Relational
Design with the assembly or entire portfolio in mind, eliminating part interference and increasing
commonality across product lines and variants. Globally dispersed teams can engage in intense
multidiscipline engineering collaboration 24/7, producing more designs in less time that are
optimized for both manufacturability and market acceptance.

To increase the likelihood of market success, ENOVIA V5 VPM effectively allows development
organizations to front load the design and validation of all possible product configurations and, if
necessary, withhold critical go-to-market decisions until late in the life cycle to deliver
precisely the product the market expects and the margins the company requires.

ENOVIA LCA

ENOVIA LCA helps global manufacturing organizations manage the complexity of product development
processes across distributed value chains and the entire product life cycle  from concept to
obsolescence.

ENOVIA LCA delivers a unique set of integrated applications spanning engineering and manufacturing
that supports the life-cycle management of the PPR definition in ENOVIA V5 VPM and DELMIA V5. The
integrated development and validation of the virtual product and virtual factory helps manufacturing
companies reduce design rework and costs, while significantly improving time-to-market.

Built upon flexible process-modeling middleware that integrates data and processes across PLM,
enterprise resource planning (ERP), legacy, and other critical enterprise systems, ENOVIA LCA
supports unique and changing business requirements of global manufacturing organizations. Having a
consolidated view that includes all these functional aspects is crucial to increasing business
agility and optimizing production schedules and development resources.

ENOVIA LCA helps development organizations meet shrinking market windows by placing the latest
product and process information such as configurations, maturity, where-used, 3D representations,
and so on in a collaborative, Web-based environment that is always
open for business
, enabling real-time decision making across global value-chains.

ENOVIA DMU enables real-time visualization and review of the 3D product as it evolves, streamlining
collaborative review and decision-making. It allows design teams to digitally build the product
mock-up and its environment, and then analyze it to gain early insight into key factors determining
design quality, product performance, and ultimate market success.

Using ENOVIA DMU testing and analysis tools, engineers can reduce and even eliminate the time and
cost invested in
build it, break it
scenarios requiring multiple physical prototypes. More importantly, it allows them to spend more
time innovating.

When ENOVIA DMU is used in conjunction with ENOVIA V5 VPM, the benefits and savings increase
exponentially. It enables global organizations  from marketing to design to maintenance  to
collaborate in real time using configurable 3D mock-ups, and to rapidly validate product variants
during testing of design alternatives. With ENOVIA DMU, development teams can transform product
information into business intelligence, improving decision making and product quality across the
enterprise value chain.

ENOVIA 3d com

Leveraging both Web and 3D technologies, 3d com products are the ideal solution for anyone within a
company who needs to have a single point of access federating all extended enterprise information to
facilitate decision making, collaboration and access to the product life cycle pipeline. They
target an extended enterprise-wide deployment level including those who are nonCAx users.

Alongside CATIA and DELMIA, ENOVIA is delivering an integrated and open PLM vision that is the
cornerstone of product development for innovators throughout the world. ENOVIA customers are
comprised of global leaders across an array of industry segments including aerospace, automotive,
heavy machinery, industrial products, shipbuilding and petroleum, plant and chemical.

Product positioning  Globalization

ENOVIA VPLM program integrated information (PII) and softcopy product information are available in:

French

German

Japanese

Chinese4

Korean4

4

ENOVIA 3d com, ENOVIA LCA, and ENOVIA V5 VPM only

PII is stored in compressed unicode format (UTF-8) for worldwide exchange without the loss or
misinterpretation of characters.

Business Partner information

If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM, you may link directly to
Business Partner information for this announcement. A PartnerWorld ID and password are required
(use IBM ID).

This section describes the new products and enhancements to previously announced products delivered
in this release. Refer to the
ENOVIA
VPLM product matrices
section of the
Additional information
section for details. For full descriptions of new and previously announced ENOVIA products, visit

Expansion Control  Automatically expand relationships recursively to show all child parts in an
assembly with a single click and perform multi-relationship selections.

Usability

Explorer view is usable by all adapters.

Icon choices are available to provide appropriate size preferences for the end user.

Quick Search Ordering solution is now available.

View Assemblies in Context  All parts are sent to the viewer with correct positioning.
Configured expansions are respected when loaded into the viewer, which improves performance and
usability.

ENOVIA  Web Viewer (W3V):
In V5.17, the name of the W3V product has changed to ENOVIA  Web Viewer. This combines two
former products: ENOVIA  3d Com Web Viewer (W3V) and ENOVIA  LCA Web Viewer (WVR). The WVR
product is being withdrawn.

Note:
W3V is now a common product to ENOVIA 3d com and ENOVIA LCA.

PLM Commands  Additional flexibility is added to the Web viewer to provide direct access to PLM
commands from the viewer using contextual menus. Before this enhancement, contextual menus provided
only basic functionality to the user, such as: Hide, Reframe On/Off, Remove to manipulate and view
part structures.

With PLM commands, clients can customize their viewer and add PLM commands for items  such as
Display attributes, Highlight in attributes list  to provide key functionality from a mouse click
within the viewer environment.

ENOVIA  MultiPDM  CDM/VPM Plug-in (VPL)

PSN5 VPM-NT capabilities

The new PSN capabilities are identical to those provided on UNIX®:

A PSN graph is available for designers to easily navigate on the structure by performing zoom, pan,
reframe, and expand/collapse, and to directly access commands on selected nodes using contextual
menus.

Replace Custom part  Users can replace a part with a set of other parts defined by a user-exit.
This function is available from the contextual menu on any part (except the root part) in any PSN.

Copy paste effectivity  Two new items are added into the PSN graph contextual menu: Copy
effectivity and Paste effectivity. These new functions enable users to re-apply an already defined
effectivity to other parts.

5

Product Structure Navigator

ENOVIA  DMU Navigator 1 (DU1)

Scripting and Journaling supported on the AIX® 64-bit platform to improve user productivity.

Annotated views enhanced for sections  Displays the
annotated view
simultaneously in different windows to improve understanding of the issues.

The new
ENOVIA / Send to file
command enables transfer from ENOVIA VPLM database to a file-based directory with better
capability and productivity. This completes the ENOVIA VPLM offering for supplier exchanges and
enterprise integration.

This command supports large product transfer not previously possible and provides smart options to
manage latest target directories, overwrite of files and links consistency between all the
documents. It is available from the ENOVIA menu, VPM Navigator tree (root node), Query result
and Impact Graph.

Customization enhancements

New software openness enables user to customize the display name of ENOVIAV5 documents in CATIAV5
from the existing attribute mapping functionality. This customized display name is shown in all
generic CATIA windows: File menu, Document authoring windows, Message popup, and so on. This
provides a more comprehensive view for the users when dealing with ENOVIA VPLM documents inside
CATIA.

Customers can now define their own icons for each type of VPM entity displayed in the
VPM Navigator trees. This tree icon customization improves usability. Many types, such as
document types (CATParts, Drafting, and so on), can be addressed.

The VPM search capability, query object in the database, now supports the search of objects on
different and customized environments

Search and navigation

The list of query operators has been drastically increased to provide a much more precise option for
users to find information.

Some navigation scenarios do not require seeing documents attached to the product structure, such as
when the user wants to work on the parts instance (for example, building a working session for
design in context). A new Expand All command allows user to expand the product structure tree with
or without the document nodes.

Column widths from query result window are now persistent from one session to another. The daily
task of analyzing queries is improved, especially when dealing with long strings for given fields.

V5.17 provides a more flexible maintainability as different service pack (SP) levels for the
ENOVIA VPLM server and CATIA/VPM Navigator are now supported. Note that the server SP
requires being at a lower level than for the CATIA/VPM Navigator.

Multi-selection is now available for Expand and ExpandAll in the Impact Graph for navigation
productivity

Naming of nodes can now be managed through boxes with multiple line for better layout and enhanced
visibility in the Impact Graph. This completes name display customization from ENOVIA VPM
Navigator (VPN) product.

ENOVIA  VPM Configured Product Design (CGP):
V5.17 enhances the versioning process through the VPM Navigator. It empowers
methodologies for concurrent design and provides more flexibility to the teams to explore alternate
studies. This leads to faster development for more innovative products.

In addition to the existing synchronization to the last version, the following options are now
proposed: the last frozen version, any version, or any selected version. Designers can easily
develop their own study, relying on approved version of parts made by peers, when
in work
versions exist concurrently. They can also choose to check their design with the up-to-date version
or an older version to better understand the changes.

Relational design benefits from this flexibility with the added capability of rerouting a document
link to any version of this document. It can be the last one, the last frozen version, or any
version. This enables designers to better adapt their concurrent design according to their process
rules or to test different options.

Designers have better control when versioning parts with regard to the maturity status rules they
have put in place: for instance, part versioning may be authorized only from already frozen parts.
Leading to clear part status for their version and their maturity, designers always have the right
information relative to the last frozen version.

V5.17 broadens the scope of configuration management of VPM Navigator with enhanced
capabilities for the designers to filter and analyze the configured products:

Designers now have the capability to define configuration filters directly from VPM Navigator.
Filters on a combination of date, range, milestones or specifications can be defined, saved, and
modified. In addition, modification filters can be applied on top of this configuration filter.

Users easily find already defined configuration handlers using a search command when they want to
filter the product they are working on. This becomes especially productive when dealing with a
large number of configuration handlers on highly configured products such as planes or trucks.

Designers can now retrieve the effectivity of a configurable object in order to understand more
about the configuration context in which they are working. This information is directly available
from the properties panel of any configurable object.

V5.17 provides more productive and secured methodologies to manage concurrent access and track
changes as well as extending the attachment to analysis documents:

Time and interactions are drastically reduced for the users to manage the lock of product and part
instances inside the CATIA session. Product and part instances can be displayed in the Save panel
or in the Working Environment Dashboard, so they can be locked directly from here.

Security is enhanced for customers who want to track all changes made in the product structure by
actions. An option now forces the user to provide an Action object before saving the changes
performed on a Configured Product.

Multidiscipline collaboration is reinforced with the capability to attach analysis documents to a
part. Access to this information becomes easier, as does life-cycle management, directly visible
and linked to the part on which they depend.

ENOVIA  VPM Work Package Exchange (WPE)

When applying product reconciliation, the lock status is checked on the different objects and the
lock is done automatically on those that need to be modified. This greatly enhances batch processes
with an integrated management of locks and facilitates user operations in interactive mode during
the save operation.

The 3D preview of the VPDM object, with cache option set on, enables access to either the 3D
representation in DMU cache (if it is up to date) or to the cgr (if available) stored in ENOVIA VPLM
as an alternative representation.

A new tab is provided in addition to the List view and the 3D Viewer that compares the attributes
defined for a given part, which may have been changed during the exchanges.

Parts and documents can be incorporated as a new version or revision directly from the reconciliator
tool. This enhances productivity by replacing the previous two-step operation in the interactive
mode (the use of
overwrite
rule in the reconciliator and the new version/revision in the save panel). It has even more value
in batch mode as the reconciliation rules and versioning management can be handled in a simple way.

Several options in the extract batch utility enable the user to complete the list of documents to
extract using the same information provided by the VPM Navigator impact graph. Those options
have a huge added value for extracting all the information linked together by the relational design
approach. For instance, it enables the user to retrieve and extract the parts or assembly linked to
a drawing or an analysis.

Usability

A progress bar is now displayed when performing a global query as well as an interrupt command to
stop the query.

The new document mapping from Virtual Product Development Management (VPDM) graph view completes the
mapping of product leaves which was already possible in the CATIA view: a two step operation was
necessary before to execute this task.

Previsualization of drawings is now possible in order to help decision during the comparison.

The user can memorize criterion parameters during reconciliation session (if re-running the same
query twice).

Global set is available only on the selected sub-tree.

A report of the reconciliation choices made by the user can now be generated. This report is
generated directly by a command available in the reconciliator. The layout of the report could be
customized through definition of an xsl document that needs to be declared in reconciliatory
settings. The report will be displayed in an html viewer that also allows user to print the report.

The new
Document view
presents documents to be reconciled as a tree of documents. It presents documents to be
reconciled as a tree of documents.

V5.17 enables reconciliation on catalogs and CATMaterial as publication exposed to complete the
information that can be exchanged seamlessly between OEM and suppliers.

Users can develop their own customized criterion for queries from an XML format they have defined.
This adds the existing queries.

V5.17 provides a new Global Set to automate the mapping by comparing the instance tree in the CATIA
view to the VPDM instance tree in the VPDM view. Automatic mapping is important in case the product
structure is exposed. Document at the leaf of the product structure (CATPart or CATProduct in
Publication exposed) will be mapped.

CATDrawing documents containing 2D component used in another CATDrawing can now be reconciled in
reload mode (detail-ditto external links).

The export work package command has been enhanced so it modifies the cable route status only if the
exported data affects the cable route. This new relevant management of cable route status avoids
revalidating cable routes that have not been affected.

Analyze hanger data using light cable way network and the electrical database; analyze cable data
using the electrical database.

Embedded in Electrical Cable Routing workbench, the Manage Cables from database command has been
enhanced to allow the user to select a cable and analyze it: all the related information, such as
cable category, length, diameter, and so on are displayed in a panel that can be saved as a text
file. In addition, the user can also select a light network display object, or key in an instance
ID, to display the analysis of the associated hanger data.

V5.17 provides flexibility with cable route rules management: Users can now define which routing
rules to check or not during routing, from the Manage Cables from Database command through a new
option button called Routing Options. Once selected, the user has the option to check and uncheck
each individual rule, and to define the level of validation (from no rules violation, report
violations, or no validation).

The options can be pre-selected and limited through Tools/Options by an administrator. Then, the
cable route status will reflect the routing rules options that have been chosen. Supervisors can
change the validation status to be overridden if the status is Fully Routed and the Validation
Status is Rule Violated.

Delete a subset of a route (full or partial) by deleting nodes from the route.

Users can now delete a portion of a cable route from the main panel of Manage Cables from Database.
Using the new command, users select the
From and To
elements they intend to delete.

Select a subset of cables that are defined in the context. Only these cables are processed and
displayed in the Cable Route Management panel.

The query of cables by equipment, schematic, or all cables now only return the cable names and their
status in first step. This drastically reduces memory consumption and improves performance of
getting the related cable routes from the database. The user can then pick the cables in which
he/she is interested in order to get more complete information on them.

Users can select a cable in order to display the
From and To
equipment locations in the light network so they can see where to route to and from. This is
especially helpful when doing partial routing as both the equipment locations and the partial route
will be displayed at the same time.

Manage lock/unlock of cable routes

Concurrent engineering has been enhanced by managing lock/unlock of cable routes directly. Users
can now check and optionally lock or unlock the cable routes. It avoids several users interacting
on the same cable route and having any issue on a concurrent saving of their tasks.

This locking and unlocking management uses the standard ENOVIA VPLM lock/unlock mechanism and can be
managed directly from ENOVIA VPM Navigator commands.

Support ENOVIA VPLM report integration for electrical cable database

In addition to the existing macros that create reports on electrical cable route information, ENOVIA
LCA Navigator reporting tools now include out-of-the-box reports and new style sheets for creating
reports on this information. Users can customize their output sheets, and these reports can then be
saved in different formats such as XML, HTML or CSV for a further application.

Includes electrical database checking tool

Users can now check and clean any unnecessary data that may have been left behind as a result of
other electrical cable database processes. This allows electrical commands to run more efficiently
and will conserve space in the database. This new command is now available from the Electrical
Cable Database Exporter toolbar. Unnecessary data can correspond to different types such as unused
cable references, no longer used workpackages, publications or cable objects.

ENOVIA  Product Definition (PDC):
A new capability to cut, copy, and paste Generic Components (GCO) in Component Editor when
defining Generic Components (GCO) greatly enhances user productivity. These new GCOs can be linked
to the current product root class (PRC) or copied to another one.

Product specifications can now have associated documents in the same way as parts or products.
Enhancing knowledge capture and sharing, it allows their visibility, from LCA Navigator or Product
Editor, as well as their direct extraction through the
send to
command.

Users can now create customized product specifications and configuration handlers by a direct access
to Identity-Card form during their creation. They can also add attributes specific to their process
to these two objects, leading to better defined, more efficient searches.

Product Specification checking during its creation enables now to displays all the violated rules in
a warning panel, enhancing user diagnosis on these errors.

V5.17 enables dynamic configuration filters from action/modifications as a computation of stored
search criteria. Using dynamic configuration filters, the users have an up-to-date product
configuration without changing the criteria.

Direct access to
Sheet Editor
from the search result panel is now provided on product specifications and configuration handlers

From the sheet editor, the following commands are directly available on these two objects, leading
to better productivity:

Open and edit the filter criteria

Change status

Create new version

Edit the attributes

V5.17 delivers productivity enhancements and more openness for effectivity definition:

Effectivity of an instance can now be driven with a NOT operator on a specification: Conditional
configuration becomes very simple on specific cases. For instance, when a specification drives the
presence of equipment, the user can now define, in one step, the need of a plastic cover, when this
specification is not satisfied, to hide the missing equipment.

Effectivity definition, based on specifications, is also simplified as empty categories or
categories with not authorized specifications are now hidden from the list.

A new filtering option is provided for product structure expand with configuration filter to hide or
show the instances that have an unresolved add operation. This occurs when a configuration expert
has not yet assigned effectivities to an operation (add, cut, replace, move). It provides
flexibility for other users to filter out these instances that are not yet fully defined.

A user exit for the specification chooser allows customers to do their own checks and validations
against the selected specifications, when other existing applications are used to manage these
dedicated tasks. Depending on the result of the check, the user may continue or receive a message
dealing with a conflict in the choice.

Instances computed effectivity can now be added to the file generated by the Export XML function,
which supports XML, HTML, and TEXT exports for the Product structure. This enables the customer to
share more information with third parties, such as effectivity dates or range.

V5.17 increases usability and productivity for navigation on actions and GCOs as well as replacement
of reference on a product.

Actions and Engineering Change Orders (ECO) are now displayed in the
Where used
graph, for item or product instances. This enables user to retrieve directly from Product Editor
affected actions, reducing the number of steps to find this information for the users.

In addition, the
Where used
graph from Product Editor enables user exit to limit the number of instances displayed at one time
based on filter applied. It provides more meaningful results to the customer instead of all the
instances displayed without filtering capability.

V5.17 enhances productivity and avoids errors due to multiple interactions by allowing user to
replace a reference on a multi-selection of part instances in Product Editor on the selected
product.

After refresh, the GCO tree layout is now kept as it was before for a better user comfort, avoiding
manual operations to rebuild the layout.

ENOVIA  Product Interference Management (PIM):
Reviewers can multi-select clashes in the results list of the clash manager panel in order to
perform a single operation on multiple occurrences.

Cross highlight between ENOVIA LCA and CATIA when selecting parts below a work package  The
cross-highlight capability of the
Identify in ENOVIA LCA
command in CATIA V5 is extended to parts belonging to a work package. The user can now easily
identify the work package containing the selected part because it is directly highlighted in the
ENOVIA Product Editor interface.

Capability to disable the automatic naming of part reference or document during the save operation
 When this option is active, the user can now manually rename the document or the part number of
part reference before saving.

DMU mode: large assembly optimization for review and applications  A new option,
View Product Structure Only
, enhances the performance and memory usage by loading only the necessary information for the
selected product in order to manage and work on ENOVIA DMU reviews, functional tolerancing and
annotations as well as knowledgeware information contained in technological packages.

ENOVIA  LCA Navigator (LCN)

Improved user productivity and ease of use

RelNav Ergo  Provides users control to zoom and modify viewing size within the application.

View Assemblies in context in LCA Navigator Web Viewers  provides improved performance by sending
*.cgrs to the viewer if this format is available (if *.cgrs are not available, CATIA documents will
be tessellated), all parts are being sent to the viewer with the correct positioning, and if a
configured expansion is sent to the viewer, this configuration will be respected when loaded into
the viewer.

Viewer command selection  Enables information exchange between the viewer component and other
components, further integrating the viewer within the LCA Navigator collaborative framework.

Engineering Hub to Manufacturing Hub change process integration  Improvements to the change
management process between ENOVIA VPLM and DELMIA provides a mechanism allowing customers to define
the validity checks needed within DELMIA before a change can be approved. This provides improved
openness of the change process validation.

ENOVIA  LCA Document Management (DCM)

Full text search  Users can search for documents based on text stored in the file, which provides
extended
content
searching.

Ability to create and attach documents in fewer clicks  Using a widget, users can create and
attach a document to a PLM object, providing improved usability and limiting the number of steps to
complete these tasks.

Multi-file uploads  Additional functionality is added to let users upload multiple files from a
file system and to create documents in ENOVIA VPLM.

Deletion of sheets  Enhanced function prevents renumbering when a sheet is deleted.

Improved iteration and format navigation  Provides a consolidated view of all iterations and
corresponding formats in Document Properties, as well as contextual commands specific to iterations
and formats.

ENOVIA  LCA Change Management (CGM)

Advanced search using effectivity  Using a configurable object associated with an action or ECO,
searches can be performed using this relationship. The search can also be further refined using its
effectivity values (for example, Range-Range type or Date-Date type values).

Distribution for related objects from ECOs to actions  Easy and efficient method to distribute
the various types of ECO related objects to all the updatable actions associated with the ECO.

Copy/Paste functions  Improvements made to significantly reduce the number of mouse clicks
necessary to paste an ENOVIA VPLM Object as an Action Affected Object when the number of objects to
paste grows large.

Ability to capture the creation of documents under a Part/Product as an Affected object 
Improvements to process automation by automatically capturing this operation as an affected object
when changes are made under the control of an action and minimizing manual activities for the user.

Advanced search using effectivity  Using a configurable object associated with an action or ECO,
searches can be performed using this relationship. The search can also be further refined using its
effectivity values (for example, Range-Range type or Date-Date type values).

Distribution for related objects from ECOs to actions  Easy and efficient method to distribute
the various types of ECO related objects to all the updatable actions associated with the ECO.

Copy/Paste functions  Improvements made to significantly reduce the number of mouse clicks
necessary to paste an ENOVIA VPLM Object as an Action Affected Object when the number of objects to
paste grows large.

Capture the creation of documents under a part/product as an Affected object  Improvements to
process automation by automatically capturing this operation as an affected object when changes are
made under the control of an action and minimizing manual activities for the user.

In session and decision support reporting  ENOVIA LCA customers leverage the reporting
functionality for decision support. Reporting is used in several stages in a product life cycle to
track maturity and progress of products that are being defined and developed.

Security rules kernel improvement  Leverages the country information and supports the export
control data

Delivery of optimized People & Organization (P&O) context metadata to improve the context import PCS
when important number (several ten thousands) of Security context objects (RscContext) have to be
imported into P&O database

This key enhancement promotes the 3D master concept. Users can retrieve and reuse functional
tolerancing and annotation information in a more convenient display, enabling manufacturing,
quality, and engineering personnel to make better decisions earlier.

DMU Space Analysis 1 (SP1)

Exported sections  Every point of a section is taken into account to create a polyline that will
be very close to the when exact section geometry. This enhancement improves the quality of exported
sections.

New minimum distance algorithm  Enhanced compatibility with the equation defined in CATIA 
Generative Shape Design leads to more accurate results when computing the minimum distance between
parts.

Section usability  The user can now show the result window of a section with the previous
settings retained to improve the usability of the product.

DMU Fitting Simulator 2 (FIT):
This release delivers a number of usability and productivity enhancements to move, track, and
shuttle operations.

Display the tree view for the selected objects in a move or shuttle activity. The tree can be
scrolled up and down, and when a part is picked, its name is displayed in the preview window.

Allow the user to edit the analysis during a move or when creating a track. When defining a track,
the simulator now includes the interference specifications for all the parts in the same window.

Generate a track or a move activity on an edge of a part, as when moving a section to the edge of a
part for gap analysis.

Allow the user to move or shuttle groups.

Display the distance traveled on the trajectory of a track or move activity during simulation.

DMU Kinematics Simulator 2 (KIN):
Users can now select the different products involved in a mechanism by clicking on the
mechanism and then opening the products directly. This enhancement improves the product usability,
especially when working with several imported sub-mechanisms.

DMU Optimizer 2 (DMO):
Enhancement of the decimation algorithm produces better surface quality. This enhancement also
decreases the size of the model, making it easier to manage for such purposes as exporting.

Human Builder 2 (HBR)

Improved user interface and manikin manipulation

It is now easier to place a manikin onto any surface.

Reports can now include status and input parameters.

Enhanced efficiency in creating more natural postures for the manikin as well as the hands

Optimization of posture selection, with enhanced internal inverse kinematics behavior and additional
options for a more natural and fluid movement

Enhanced snap for the
Reach Mode
command, enabling more predictable posture of a manikin segment

New
Vector on Plan
coincidence constraints for manikin segments for more natural positioning, allowing, for example,
the feet of the manikin to stay flat at a certain height without any other specification in terms of
location.

Enhanced WLS products

User Companion for DMU (DNS):
A V5.16 to V5.17 update course allows end-users to self-train on all the new capabilities
delivered with the DMU Navigator, DMU Analysis, and DMU Optimizer workbenches. This update course
is unique in the marketplace by virtue of its extensive coverage of the new release enhancements as
well as its synchronization with product availability.

ENOVIA User Companion for LCA (LCS)

A V5.16 to V5.17 update course allows users to self-train on all the new capabilities delivered with
ENOVIA LCA. This update course is unique in the marketplace by virtue of its extensive coverage of
the new release enhancements as well as its synchronization with product availability.

The LCA Fundamentals course, included in this product as well as ENOVIA User Companion for V5 VPM
(VNS), has been made much more interactive with dynamic detailed steps, roll-over texts, 3DXML
images and several simulations. Furthermore, the chapter on configuration is drastically reworked.

The exercises database has been re-engineered with a common scenario for all three courses that are
in both VNS and LCS Companion products. Detailed steps have been added.

Self-assessment quiz is added in V5.17.

In the ENOVIA LCA course, the
Add Reporting
topic is now covered.

ENOVIA User Companion for V5 VPM (VNS)

A V5.16 to V5.17 update course allows users to self-train on all the new capabilities delivered with
ENOVIA LCA. This update course is unique in the marketplace by virtue of its extensive coverage of
the new release enhancements as well as its synchronization with product availability.

The LCA Fundamentals course, included in both VNS and LCS, has been made much more interactive with
dynamic detailed steps, roll-over texts, 3DXML images and several simulations. Furthermore, the
chapter on configuration has been drastically reworked.

The exercises database has been reengineered with a common scenario for all 3 courses that are in
both VNS and LCS Companion products. Detailed steps have been added.

Download/load documents onto applications other than CATIA, such as Microsoft Office and Solidworks

Launch ENOVIA SMARTEAM and ENOVIA VPLM applications

Basis to a Light Studio  Capability to tailor Dassault courseware

Enhancement of the server version  Same functional level as the client version

Performance and resources management

Included only products withdrawn

ENOVIA  LCA Web Viewer (WVR) is an included only product that is being withdrawn this release.
The WVR function, now part of W3V, is renamed ENOVIA  Web Viewer. W3V is now repositioned as a
common product to ENOVIA 3d com.

ENOVIA LCA / ENOVIA V5 VPM configurations

Note:
Product licensing matrix is available on product CDs.

ENOVIA  Casual User Configuration (CUR)

This configuration targets users whose main interest is to view data stored in ENOVIA VPLM. Some of
the activities that the users can perform:

Viewing any data (part, document, or engineering change) and navigating any structure or
relationship associated with it

Setting up access privileges and default environments for departments and end-users

ENOVIA  System and Data Administrator Configuration (RVR)

This configuration targets chief system and data administrators who are in charge of ENOVIA VPLM
implementation. In addition to the products dedicated for system setup, most products from ENOVIA
V5 VPM and ENOVIA LCA are included for end-user support and customization purposes.

ENOVIA  VPM Product Design Configuration (DER)

VPM design engineers design parts, assemblies, and products. These users normally design directly
in CATIA V5 and save the design work in ENOVIA VPLM (Engineering Hub) afterwards. These users
include design managers with additional responsibilities such as managing work assignments (actions)
related to the design activities, performing clash analysis and exchanging data with suppliers.

This is basically the same group of users targeted by the VPM Engineer configuration. The
difference is that all applications provided within this configuration are available through the
CATIA V5 user interface. Designers can access both design and life cycle management functions from
within CATIA V5 to facilitate easy adoption of ENOVIA V5 VPM functions among CATIA users.

Additional details

ENOVIA VPLM WLS V5

Additional details on previously announced functions:
The WLS Companion Server facilitates deployment by eliminating the need to install the license
function and complete user companion Java client on individual student machines. Instead, the
server runs these functions using a J2EE application server software, such as IBM WebSphere or
Apache Tomcat.

The standard WLS user companion installation, whether in a file standalone mode or HTTP page server
mode, requires a full Java client and WLS license to be installed on each student client machine.
The Companion Server consolidates these functions on a single machine to streamline the licensing
process and to improve user companion response time.

This licensing option offers a reduced Primary License Charge (PLC) and requires the user to
purchase licenses in a quantity equal to the quantity of each licensed CATIA configuration or
product as described by the following terms.

The ENOVIA VPLM WLS configuration 5795-DNC is licensed to users on a one-to-one relationship between
the 5795-DNC configuration and each licensed 5693-DN1 or -DMN add-on or 5691-DMN shareable product
and also each licensed configuration (and any future configuration) that includes the DMU
Navigator 1 or DMU Navigator 2 product.

All subsequent orders for the applicable licensed configurations must be accompanied by an
equivalent order for the supporting ENOVIA User Companion. The price of an enterprise seat is
greatly reduced compared to the price of a shareable order.

There is a 10-seat minimum requirement for the ENOVIA User Companion for VPM Configuration 
Enterprise Option (5795-VMC).

There is no minimum seat requirement for the User Companion for DMU Configuration  Enterprise
Option (5795-DNC).

The following rules apply:

When the enterprise option is deployed, the shareable option is no longer necessary.

A shareable product (5691) can be added only on top of a shareable configuration (5691).

An enterprise product (5795) can be added only on top of an enterprise configuration product (5795).

The user can have a 5691 type entry configuration and a 5795 type entry configuration (such as
5691-MDC plus 5691-HDS and 5795-DNC).

Schedules and enrollment

Hardware requirements

ENOVIA DMU  ENOVIA VPLM WLS requirements:
The following requirements are common to all operating systems supported by ENOVIA DMU
products and ENOVIA VPLM WLS. System unit and graphics display requirements are platform-specific.

Note:
ENOVIA User Companion for VPM WLS is designed to run concurrently with ENOVIAVPM V1.6. For
hardware prerequisites, refer to Software Announcement
206-199
, dated September 5, 2006.

Memory: 256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended amount of memory for all applications.
512 MB of RAM is recommended for ENOVIA  DMU Navigator applications on large assemblies.
Requirements may be greater when a large amount of data is used.

Internal/external drives: CD-ROM drive is required for program installation and access to the online
documentation, which can be downloaded optionally to disk.

Graphics display: A graphics color display, compatible with selected platform-specific graphics
adapter. The minimum recommended size for usability reasons is 17 inches; 1024 x 768 and 1280 x
1024 for UNIX workstations. When selecting a graphics adapter, hardware texturing capability is
strongly recommended when using ENOVIA  DMU Products that use texture mapping, in which case the
amount of RAM has to be adequate for the number and complexity of textures to be used.

Keyboard: A specific keyboard compatible with selected installation locale may be required for
national language support.

Pointing device: Three-button mouse; on Windows workstations, a two-button mouse can be used (the
third button is emulated with a keyboard sequence). The three button mouse is recommended for
usability reasons. IntelliMouse (two buttons plus wheel) is an alternative to the three-button
mouse on Windows workstations, the wheel acting as the middle button and allowing additional
manipulations such as panning and scrolling.

Optional components and features: A SpaceBall or a SpaceMouse can be used in addition to the
standard mouse to perform graphic manipulations (zoom, pan, rotate). The required drivers are
delivered with these devices. DMU Fitting Simulator 2 (FIT) supports the Spaceball. The SpaceBall
and the SpaceMouse are supported on both P1 and P2. While in P1, they enable graphic manipulations
(in examine or fly modes), in P2 they also make it possible to move objects (part trajectories in
ENOVIA DMU fitting, for example).

The robustness of the overall solution is dependent on the robustness of the operating system and
the hardware environment used. For a list of Windows NT and UNIX hardware configurations
certified by Dassault Systemes for running ENOVIA DMU products, visit

Additional support for AIX Run time is AIX V5.3 ML03 (on 32-bit and
64-bit)  on Power 4 and Power 5 only.

Standard support for AIX V5.1 ended on April 1, 2006, and end
of support (EOS) for AIX V5.2 is September 1, 2007. To ensure
a consistent level of maintenance and service for CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM,
customers are encouraged to migrate to AIX V5.3.

Graphics adapter

One of the following graphics adapters:

GXT500P

GXT550P

GXT800P

GXT800M

GXT2000P

GXT3000P

GXT4000P

GXT4500P

GXT6000P

GXT6500P

Note:
Support of the IBM eServer® P5 and IBM System p5 Server requires
AIX V5.3.

HP-UX

System unit

Any B-Class, C-Class, or J-Class workstation based on a PA8000 processor,
supported on HP-UX 11.11 (HP-UX 11i), provided that requirements are met.

Note:
Memory consumption is about 50 MB after all ENOVIA 3d com applets, the
Java Virtual Machine, and the browser itself is loaded.

IBM AIX

System unit

Any RS/6000, based on Power4 processor family supported on AIX V5.2 or
AIX V5.3

System units based on Power5 or PowerPC 970 processor families, supported
on AIX V5.3.

Note:
Standard support for AIX V5.1 ended on April 1, 2006, and end
of support (EOS) for AIX V5.2 is September 1, 2007. To ensure
a consistent level of maintenance and service for CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM,
customers are encouraged to migrate to AIX V5.3.

Graphics adapter

One of the following graphics adapters:

GXT500P

GXT550P

GXT800P

GXT800M

GXT2000P

GXT3000P

GXT4000P

GXT4500P

GXT6000P

GXT6500P

HP-UX

Any B-Class, C-Class or J-Class workstation based on a PA8000 processor
family, supported on HP-UX 11.11 (HP-UX 11i), provided that requirements
are met.

One of the following graphics adapters:

Visualize-FXE

Visualize-FX2

Visualize-FX4

Visualize-FX5

Visualize-FX6

Visualize-FX10

Fire GL-UX

Fire GL X1

Fire GL X3

Fire GL-T2

SGI IRIX

Note:
ENOVIA VPLM V5.17 is the last release to support SGI IRIX. Any future
release will require customers who are currently running ENOVIA VPLM on
SGI IRIX to migrate to another operating system.

The following requirements are common to all operating systems
supported by ENOVIA 3d com products. System unit and graphic
requirements are platform-specific and are detailed in the sections that
follow:

Disk drive: An internal or external disk drive is required to store
program executables (installation of all ENOVIA 3d com products requires
about 800 MB on Windows or Solaris, 1.1 GB on AIX, 1.3 GB
on HP-UX, 1.0 GB on IRIX), program data, usage environment, and
paging space. Requirements may be larger when large amounts of data are
used.

Memory: 256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended amount of memory for all
applications. Requirements may be greater when large amounts of data are
used.

Internal/external drives: A CD-ROM drive is required for program and
online documentation installation.

LAN adapter: A network adapter is required to connect the server and
clients to the LAN or WAN.

Keyboard: A specific keyboard compatible with selected installation
locale may be required for national language support.

Pointing device: Three-button mouse.

General rules for memory requirements (classic ENOVIA 3d com)

The memory requirement depends on the number of simultaneous ENOVIA 3d
com sessions; the users need to dimension the server system accordingly.

The server dimensioning needs to take into account the memory used by the
CAD/CAM process on the server.

For CATIA V5 (classic ENOVIA 3d com)

ENOVIA 3d com consumes 50 MB for the first session plus 10 MB for each
additional session for an average 1 MB model.

The RAM requirement formula is the following: 50 MB + n*10 MB+n*m MB,
where n is the number of maximum concurrent sessions and m the average
size of the CATIA models.

Note:
If several models are selected in one session, only one model remains
loaded at the same time, optimizing the memory consumption. As an
example, for 10 concurrent users manipulating 10 MB average-size models,
the minimum RAM requirement is 256 MB.

For better response time, a graphics card can be installed on the server
and shared in a sequential mode between the simultaneous sessions to
improve 3D rendering, customers must dimension the graphics card
accordingly.

Platform-specific requirements

Windows 2000/Windows XP (classic ENOVIA 3d com)

Note:
ENOVIA VPLM V5.17 is the last release to support Microsoft Windows
2000 Professional Edition. Customers are encouraged to migrate to
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition.

The following requirements are common to all operating systems
supported by ENOVIA LCA. System unit requirements are platform-specific.

Disk drive:
Internal or external disk drive to store program executables, program
data, usage environment, and paging space. Installation of all ENOVIA
LCA products requires approximately 1.0 GB on AIX or Solaris, and 1.3 GB
on HP-UX. Requirements may be larger when large amounts of data are
used.

Memory:
ENOVIA LCA requires at least 256 MB of real memory for the first
session, including the operating system, but could use up to 2 GB (or
more in some cases) depending on system settings, database parameters,
and other factors. If ENOVIA LCA server is installed on the same server
as the database, be sure to add the database memory requirement to that
needed for ENOVIA LCA.

Additional memory is required for each additional Application Server
session, and 75 MB should be used as a typical-use starting point (with a
minimum of 25MB per user session for those only logged-on). More or less
additional-session memory may be required depending on user-specific
factors such as the amount of data loaded, the number of different
application areas open concurrently, local customizations, and so on.
Additional sizing rules will be provided after further capacity planning
evaluations.

Internal/external drives:
CD-ROM drive for program and online documentation installation

The required level for document browsers in a UNIX environment is Mozilla 1.7 for AIX, HP-UX, and
Solaris and Mozilla 1.4 for IRIX.

The required level for document browsers in a Microsoft Windows environment is Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla 1.7.

The required level for JRE is 1.5.0, except for SGI IRIX, which requires 1.4.1.

The required level for WMQ is 6.0.

Requirements for interoperability with CATIA products

CATIA V5 and ENOVIA VPLM must be at the same release, service pack, and hot fix level for proper
interoperability.

CATIA V5 and ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM interoperability is supported between various CATIA V5 release
and ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM PTF levels. Refer to the most recent
ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM PTF program directory
for the current prerequisite and recommended interoperability PTFs.

Specific software requirements for ENOVIA WLS V5:
Access to the companion desktop  Companion desktop access is accomplished using the same
browser requirements as ENOVIA VPLM (refer to the
Access to
product information (ENOVIA DMU / ENOVIA 3d com)
and
Access to product
information (ENOVIA LCA)
sections). The Java plug-in (JRE at a minimum level of 1.5) is required to visualize the different
types of simulations (Show Me, Discover It, Try It, and the Quiz) and to allow for automatic model
loading from ENOVIA VPLM.

Application server setup  The application server used must support
Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 and must be able to handle the Companion Server
WAR or EAR files. These files are copied during installation if the
application server option was selected during the installation procedure.
The server setup operation depends on the application server used and
must be done by the system administrator.

Companion application setup for license serving  The application
server machine must be able to access WLS licenses, and licenses must be
available to this server machine. For the Enterprise Option, the total
number of licenses must be equal to the maximum number of students that
will be connected at the same time to the application server.

Operating System support exceptions:
There are four MultiCAx products that are only supported on
Windows 2000 and Windows XP:

Note:
ENOVIA User Companion for VPM WLS is designed to run concurrently with
ENOVIAVPM V1.6. For software prerequisites, refer to Software
Announcement
206-199
, dated September 5, 2006.

Refer to the
program directory
or contact the IBM Support Center for appropriate corrective service to
apply to the following software.

ENOVIA DMU platform-specific software requirements

Windows 2000/Windows XP

Note:
ENOVIA VPLM V5.17 is the last release to support Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional Edition. Customers are encouraged to migrate to Microsoft
Windows XP Professional Edition.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 (at minimum level) or
Windows XP Professional Edition SP1 and SP2 with the following
components:

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP deliver an implementation
of OpenGL libraries. These libraries can be updated depending on
selected graphics adapter, when the user installs the graphics adapter
and associated drivers. For a list of driver levels based on certified
configurations, visit

The following set of patches are required when running 32-bit
applications on x64 environment:

KB903648: When using macro and VBScript features, V5 may crash when
accessing more than 2GB of address space. A Microsoft patch is available
to correct this problem. To see Microsoft Article: KB903648, visit

KB911021: Required for applications allowing more than 2GB of address
space. Contact your Microsoft support representative for any questions
regarding this patch.

AIX

Note:
Standard support for AIX V5.1 ended on April 1, 2006, and end
of support (EOS) for AIX V5.2 is September 1, 2007. To ensure
a consistent level of maintenance and service for CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM,
customers are encouraged to migrate to AIX V5.3.

Browser plug-ins: Some WLS products may provide learning resources using
the Portable Document Format (PDF). To view these documents, Adobe
Acrobat Reader V3, or later, must be installed as a plug-in on the
browser. To download, visit

Although access to WLS might work on other HTML browsers, incidents
specific to browsers other than the products mentioned above are not
eligible for support.

Access to product information (ENOVIA DMU / ENOVIA 3d com):
Product information and User GALAXY (online product marketing
information) are delivered in HTML format. An HTML browser is required
to access this documentation. Online documentation may be installed and
used only in an officially supported operating environment.

In a UNIX environment (AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris)

Mozilla 1.7 with Java plug-in installed, except for IRIX

IRIX: Mozilla 1.4 with Java plug-in installed

In a Windows environment, either

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Mozilla 1.7 with Java plug-in installed

Although access to the online documentation might work on other HTML
browsers, incidents specific to browsers other than products mentioned
above are not eligible for support.

In addition to a Java-enabled Web browser, a Java plug-in at
level 1.5 (or 5.0) is required, except for IRIX, which requires Java
1.4.1.

Note:
Improvements in HTML searching and printing capabilities eliminate the
need to duplicate product information in the Portable Document Format
(PDF) format. PDF CDs are therefore no longer included in the ENOVIA
VPLM softcopy collection kit.

ENOVIA DMU prerequisites for the license management environment

Windows workstations must have an active LAN card (Ethernet or token
ring) and TCP/IP installed and properly configured, but there is no need
to have the workstations connected to the network.

No additional software is required when accessing license keys.

IBM License Use Management (LUM) is required to serve concurrent license
keys across a network. A LUM configuration file (i4ls.ini) is required
on ENOVIA  DMU clients to access concurrent license keys from these
servers.

ENOVIA VPLM add-on (AOP) and shareable products may require license keys
for prerequisite products that are not already included in a standard
configuration. Prerequisites for shareable products can be satisfied by
a standard configuration, by an AOP within a custom configuration, or by
a shareable product. However, because all add-on products are defined
within one custom license key, any AOP prerequisites must be satisfied by
either a standard configuration or by other AOPs purchased and defined
within the same custom configuration.

There is no limit to the number of ENOVIA DMU processes launched for a
given license key (configuration or product). For instance, a user can
launch the following simultaneous processes:

A V5 interactive session

A V5 process executed through an OLE container application

Replay of macros recorded from captured sequences of V5 user interactions

ENOVIA DMU macro replay capabilities:
ENOVIA DMU products have built-in macro record and replay: For
UNIX, the interpreter is VisualBasic (VB) Script 3.0 from Mainsoft. It
is included in ENOVIA DMU products as shared libraries.

For Windows, the interpreter is either:

VB Script 5.0, or later, delivered with Microsoft Internet Explorer. VB
Script libraries at level 5.0.0.3715 are delivered with Internet
Explorer 5.0, or later, with later versions of Internet Explorer. Use of
VB Script is recommended for developing Windows/UNIX compatible macros.

Microsoft VisualBasic for Applications (VBA) 6.0, or later. VBA is
delivered and installed by default with ENOVIA DMU.

ENOVIA DMU printer and plotter support in a UNIX environment:
ENOVIA DMU products provide support for main plotter/printer
languages:

CGM-ISO, ATA, CALS

Hewlett Packard HP-GL/2-RTL and HP-GL or IBM-GL subsets

OCE Graphics GPR50: VDF Plotting routines

PostScript

ENOVIA DMU printer and plotter support in a Windows environment:
Support of printers and plotters on Windows is performed through
the availability, for the targeted printers/plotters, of the
corresponding vendors' drivers, compatible with the targeted version of
the operating system. Contact the appropriate printer/plotter vendor for
support.

Batch monitoring using WebSphere MQ (formally known as MQSeries®):
Using WebSphere MQ communication tools, some batch operations
can now be launched remotely. When implemented at the batch level, this
optional feature requires:

WebSphere MQ client is required on systems where the transaction is
initiated. WebSphere MQ server is required on systems where remote
batches are executed.

ENOVIA DMU software installation

On Windows, installing and uninstalling rely on Windows-compliant tools
such as InstallShield, enabling anyone familiar with Windows procedures
and concepts to install the software.

The concepts, procedures, and look and feel of installation procedures
for Windows are carried over to the UNIX environment to give a common
ENOVIA  DMU Products interface for all supported operating systems.

Installation procedures feature

Easy and fast installation: Any user can install and execute the product
with a limited number of interactions.

Solaris  When using Mozilla 1.7 browser, a Java plug-in is necessary
for access to the Documentation search applet. The recommended plug-in
on Solaris is Version 5.0 update 5 available under the JDK/JRE 5.0
section at

On-the-fly conversion to VRML does not require any additional software.

If no plug-in is available to display the converted data, the browser
will propose to store the data with the extension .wrl on the client.

If a VRML plug-in is available it is automatically invoked for viewing
and manipulation.

For interoperability between a CATIA V5 session and a VPM database, using
a ENOVIA 3d com DB2® client or Oracle client, refer to the appropriate
VPM announcement for specific supported relational database management
system (RDBMS) release levels.

Note:
ENOVIA VPLM V5.17 is the last release to support Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition.

Windows 2000 Professional Edition with Service Pack 4 or higher or Windows XP SP1 or SP2,
or Professional Edition, with the following components:

Windows 2000 or Windows XP delivers an implementation of OpenGL libraries. These
libraries may be updated depending on the selected graphics adapter when the user installs the
graphics adapter and associated drivers.

A localized version of the operating system may be required when the selected installation locale
differs from Latin1.

Windows XP Professional x64 edition for V5 32-bit

Minimum level required: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Microsoft implementation of OpenGL libraries, as delivered with Windows. For recommendations
related to driver levels based on tested graphic adapters, visit

The following set of patches are required when running 32-bit
applications on x64 environment:

KB903648: When using macro and VBScript features, V5 may crash when
accessing more than 2GB of address space. A Microsoft patch is available
to correct this problem. To see Microsoft Article: KB903648, visit

Microsoft Windows 2003 delivers an implementation of OpenGL
libraries. These libraries may be updated depending on the selected
graphics adapter when the user installs the graphics adapter and
associated drivers.

DirectX at minimum level 8.1 is required for correct operation of
ENOVIA 3d com Server in a multi-user environment. It is available from

A localized version of the operating system may be required when the
selected installation locale differs from Latin1.

Note:
V5.17 is the final release to support Windows 2000 Professional
Edition. Customers currently running V5 on Windows 2000 are
encouraged to migrate to Windows XP.

AIX

Note:
Standard support for AIX V5.1 ended on April 1, 2006, and end of support
(EOS) for AIX V5.2 is September 1, 2007. To ensure a consistent level of
maintenance and service for CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM, customers are
encouraged to migrate to AIX V5.3.

On Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Windows, for classic ENOVIA 3d com,
the Java Runtime Environment at level 1.5 (or 5.0) is required on
the server side for the Workbook server. It can be downloaded from

On AIX and Windows, WebSphere Portal Server V5.1.0.2 on WebSphere
Application Server V6.0.2 can be used with the new File Explorer and the
ENOVIA 3d com Web Navigator and ENOVIA  LCA Navigator portlets.
For more information about WebSphere Portal, visit

To use the Sametime® collaboration capabilities, Lotus® Instant
Messaging and Web Conferencing 6.51 is required.

ENOVIA 3d com prerequisites for the license management environment

"Nodelock" license keys are not allowed with ENOVIA 3d com. LUM is
required to serve concurrent license keys across a network. A LUM
configuration file (i4ls.ini) is required on clients to access concurrent
license keys from these servers.

CATIA V5 server code is included on the ENOVIA 3d com CD-ROM and
installed by default. To use ENOVIA 3d com in conjunction with CATIA V5,
the user must install ENOVIA 3d com with the ENOVIA 3d com Navigator or
with ENOVIA 3d com CAD Viewing configuration.

The ENOVIA 3d com Navigator and CAD Viewing configurations include a V5
server that supports reading and visualizing of CATIA 3D data created at
any level up to and including CATIA V5.12 and CATIA V4.2.4.1.

Notes

MultiCAx plug-ins (ProEngineer, Unigraphics, and I-deas) must be
installed on the server side when multi-CAD support is required.

Requirements for using instant collaboration capabilities with ENOVIA 3d
com

Sametime Server: 6.5.1

Server OS: see Sametime release Note

Client OS: Windows, AIX V5.2, Solaris 8

Using ENOVIAVPM V1.6 with ENOVIA VPLM V5.17 or CATIA V5.17 products:
ENOVIAVPM V1.6 customers who plan to interoperate with the V5.17
family of ENOVIA VPLM or CATIA products must install an ENOVIAVPM program
temporary fix (PTF) to obtain the required interoperability level.
(V5.17 service pack may also be required.) The required PTF could vary
depending on whether the base level of the V5.17 product is being used,
or a subsequent service pack level. Check the V5.17 documentation for
interoperability information, or contact IBM Support for specific
details, or visit

When using Mozilla 1.7 browser, a Java plug-in is necessary for access to
the Documentation search applet. The recommended plug-in on Solaris is
Version 5.0 Update 5 available under the JDK/JRE 5.0 section at

Operating system requirements for clients on UNIX machines are the same
as those stated in the
ENOVIA LCA
server software requirements
section.

Windows 2000/Windows XP

Note:
ENOVIA VPLM V5.17 is the last release to support Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 or higher, or Windows XP
Professional SP1 or SP2 with the following components:

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP deliver an implementation of OpenGL libraries. The
user can update these libraries depending on the graphics adapter selected when the user installed
the adapter and associated drivers.

A localized version of the operating system may be required when the selected installation locale
differs from Latin1.

Windows XP Professional x64 edition for V5 32-bit

Minimum level required: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Microsoft implementation of OpenGL libraries, as delivered with Windows. For recommendations
related to driver levels based on tested graphic adapters, visit

The following set of patches are required when running 32-bit
applications on x64 environment:

KB903648: When using macro and VBScript features, V5 may crash when
accessing more than 2GB of address space. A Microsoft patch is available
to correct this problem. To see Microsoft Article: KB903648, visit

A localized version of the operating system may be required when the
selected local installation differs from Latin1.

AIX

Note:
Standard support for AIX V5.1 ended on April 1, 2006, and end
of support (EOS) for AIX V5.2 is September 1, 2007. To ensure
a consistent level of maintenance and service for CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM,
customers are encouraged to migrate to AIX V5.3.

Note:
A localized version of the operating system may be required when the
selected installation locale differs from ISO-1.

Additional software requirements on the server side

The following components are required or optional on thin client (ENOVIA
LCA Navigator) servers for all supported operating systems. It is also
required for VPM Navigator customers who implement VPM Navigator
Instant Collaboration.

An HTTP server, supported by the selected WebSphere Application Server
version. The following servers are supported:

Apache Server

IBM HTTP Server

Microsoft Internet Information Services

Incidents specific to other servers will not be eligible for support

LDAP:
In the case that ENOVIA LCA Navigator Web Application Server manages
Single Sign On, an LDAP directory server supported by the selected
WebSphere Application Server version is required in addition to the above
middleware requirements.

ORBIX:
The ORBIX 3.0.1 product (supplied with ENOVIA LCA Navigator) is used
and enables IIOP-based, CORBA-compliant communications on the server
side.

Product documentation is delivered in HTML format. An HTML browser
is required to access this documentation. Product documentation may be
installed and used only in an officially supported operating environment.

Complete online documentation is available on CD. Totally Web-oriented
using standard HTML and graphics formats, it is readily accessible using
a standard Web browser. Navigation help includes the ability to do full
text search.

Documentation is also available in PDF. Printing and browsing requires
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ENOVIA LCA delivers identical license management mechanisms in UNIX and
Windows environments, based on LUM and on the UNIX license management
server, shareable across UNIX and Window clients. The following license
management principles apply:

A license key is required to use an ENOVIA LCA configuration or product.

License keys are acquired and released for the total configuration. The
products within a standard or custom configuration cannot be broken up or
shared outside of it.

In all cases, license keys are acquired at the beginning of the process
(login) and released at its termination (logout).

ENOVIA LCA products and configurations are licensed on a concurrent usage
basis.

ENOVIA VPLM General Licensing Principles

ENOVIA VPLM add-on (AOP) and shareable products may require prerequisite
products that are not included in a standard purchased configuration.
When a prerequisite product is not included in the selected standard
configuration, both the AOP and its prerequisite products must be
purchased and included as AOPs within a custom configuration.
Prerequisites for shareable products can be satisfied by a standard
configuration, by an AOP within a custom configuration, or by a shareable
product.

Planning information

Direct customer support:
Direct customer support is provided under a PLM enhanced support contract. This service for a
fee enhances the customer's productivity by providing voice and electronic access to the PLM Support
Center. For eligible products, the PLM help desk can answer questions pertaining to the
installation, administration, use, and handling of suspected software defects.

For additional information about the enhanced support contract and other available PLM services
offerings, visit the PLM Technical Support Web site:

ENOVIA VPLM national language packaging:
Product integrated information (PII) is included on the code CDs
at general availability. Softcopy collection kits of translated
publications for each language are available after general availability.

Additional Softcopy Collection Kits can be ordered through the IBM
representative or business partner using the following numbers:

ENOVIA VPLM WLS V5 packaging:
The ENOVIA VPLM WLS products are packaged so that all user
companions for UNIX and Windows are under a single form number.

The ENOVIA WLS V5 User Companion for DMU (LCD4-7848) includes:

User Companion for DMU for UNIX

User Companion for DMU for Windows

The ENOVIA WLS V5 User Companion for VPM (LCD4-7849) includes:

ENOVIA User Companion for VPM for UNIX

ENOVIA User Companion for VPM for Windows

The ENOVIA WLS V5 User Companion for LCA (LCD4-7850) includes:

ENOVIA User Companion for LCA for UNIX

ENOVIA User Companion for LCA for Windows

ENOVIA WLS V5 User Companion for V5 VPM (LCD4-7879) includes:

ENOVIA User Companion for V5 VPM for UNIX

ENOVIA User Companion for V5 VPM for Windows

In addition, all ENOVIA VPLM WLS V5 user companions include the following
informal documents:

PLM Products Current User's Memorandum (GI11-4403)

PLM Products Software Registration Memorandum (GI11-4404)

ENOVIA V5.17 LPS (GI11-6293)

National language versions (NLVs) of WLS products:
NLVs of WLS products at the current release level will be
available after general availability. The standard order process
applies. The ENOVIA VPLM WLS NLV products are packaged so that all user
companions for UNIX and Windows are under a single form number:

User Companion for DMU for French (LCD4-7860) includes:

User Companion for DMU for UNIX

User Companion for DMU for Windows

User Companion for DMU for German (LCD4-7853) includes:

User Companion for DMU for UNIX

User Companion for DMU for Windows

User Companion for DMU for Japanese (LCD4-7856) includes:

User Companion for DMU for UNIX

User Companion for DMU for Windows

ENOVIA User Companion for VPM for French (LCD4-7859) includes:

User Companion for VPM for Windows

User Companion for VPM for UNIX

ENOVIA LCA WLS is available in English only. There will be no national
language deliverables for ENOVIA LCA WLS for V5.17.

Security, auditability, and control

The announced programs use the security and auditability features of the operating system software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.

Updated configurations:
For V5.17, the DMU Dimensioning & Tolerancing Review 1 Add-on Product (5693-DT1) is included in
the following configurations:

5691-DM1
5691-DM2
5691-DPS

Accordingly, effective September 5, 2006, the following indicator feature number:

4306 5693-DT1 AOP Indicator Code

is to be removed from the following configurations:

5691-DM1
5691-DM2
5691-DPS

The former ENOVIA  3d com Web Viewer product has been renamed ENOVIA  Web Viewer product, now
common to both ENOVIA 3d com and ENOVIA LCA. The product identifier remains W3V.

Customization option:
Feature number 3444 is used for serial number purposes only; no media or documentation will
ship with an initial or MES order.

Billing feature numbers

Billing feature numbers for upgrades and migrations

The product upgrade charge applies to orders for a replacement product when it replaces a
predecessor product that was obtained for a PLC/recurring charge. The predecessor product is
discontinued upon installation of the new version. For purposes of data model migration and
validation, a customer may continue to use the predecessor product for up to three months without
IBM approval, but may not use both the new version product and the predecessor product
simultaneously for productive purposes at any time. If both licenses are used simultaneously the
customer will be subject to the full PLC and recurring charges that apply to the replacement
program, as well as the recurring charges applicable to the predecessor program. The three-month
parallel usage of the replacement and predecessor product may be extended to more than three months
on an individual basis with prior IBM approval.

It is a licensing requirement that each unique custom configuration of ENOVIA VPLM is assigned a
unique SW serial number. All ENOVIA VPLM products are built on custom configurations. To provide a
unique serial for each custom configuration, an install record has to be created for each unique
custom configuration. The number is assigned automatically by the IBM ordering systems each time
the output from the configurator system is loaded into the IBM ordering system. The SW serial
number becomes part of the permanent Customer Record Number.

Additional ENOVIA VPLM products can be added to an already established SW serial number through an
MES order. Use of the MES procedure with the IBM configurators requires that the ordering
representative first load the configurator with the complete list of unique SW serial numbers for
the unique customer number ordering the MES.

System Program Order (SPO)

ENOVIA VPLM programs for all platforms (UNIX and Windows) will be shipped under either the 5628-DMU
or 5628-LCA SPO. A SPO is required for all program shipments and future updates.

Initial orders placed for program type 5691 without a corresponding order or MES for the SPO will
either fail order validation, or will not generate a media shipment. Each customer number must have
its own SPO.

Media feature number

Initial orders:
When ordering the first 5691-xxx configuration for ENOVIA VPLM, an order must also be placed
for the SPO. Both the 5691-xxx program order and the SPO must be for the same CPU system
type/system number, and have the same scheduled shipment date.

Subsequent licenses:
The SPO must have a feature number for every ENOVIA VPLM configuration that is installed or
on-order. Therefore, when a configuration that was not previously installed is ordered, the SPO
must be updated.

To update an on-order system:
When a license for a new 5691 program is ordered for an on-order system, the SPO must be
updated to reflect the feature number of the licensed program desired. Also, for asset registration
and billing purposes, an order for the individual licensed program type 5691 is required.

To update an installed system:
When a license for a new 5691 program is ordered for an installed system, the SPO must be
updated to reflect the feature number of the licensed program.

Customization options:
Select the appropriate feature numbers to customize your order to specify the delivery options
desired. These features can be specified on the initial or MES orders.

For example, if publications are not desired for the initial order, specify feature number 3470 to
ship media only. For future updates, specify feature number 3480 to ship media updates only. If,
in the future, publication updates are required, order an MES to remove feature number 3480; then
the publications will ship with the next release of the program.

Expedite shipments will be processed to receive 72-hour delivery from the time IBM Integrated Supply
Chain (ISC) receives the order. ISC will then ship the order via overnight air transportation.

Unlicensed documentation:
One English softcopy publication CD-ROM is automatically included in all shipments. National
language versions (NLVs) of the softcopy publications in French, German, Japanese, and Korean at the
current release level will be available after general availability at no charge.

To order additional copies, specify the language using the feature numbers below. Only one
additional copy of a kit can be ordered per license.

Licensed documentation:
Subsequent updates (technical newsletters or revisions between releases) to the publications
shipped with the product will be distributed to the user of record for as long as a license for this
software remains in effect. A separate publication order or subscription is not needed.

An ENOVIA VPLM configuration (standard or custom) will require a license key. License keys for
ENOVIA VPLM configurations are acquired and released for the total configuration. The products
within a configuration cannot be shared.

Each ENOVIA VPLM shareable product will require a license key, in addition to one for the
prerequisite configuration and any prerequisite product, if applicable.

In all cases, ENOVIA VPLM configuration license keys are acquired at the beginning of the process
and are released at its termination.

ENOVIA VPLM add-on (AOP) and shareable products may require license keys for prerequisite products
that are not already included in a standard configuration. Prerequisites for shareable products can
be satisfied by a standard configuration, by an AOP within a custom configuration, or by a shareable
product. However, because all add-on products are defined within one custom license key, any AOP
prerequisites must be satisfied by either a standard configuration or by other AOPs purchased and
defined within the same custom configuration.

Additional licenses, features, or authorizations, as appropriate must be obtained to extend use
levels.

Additional licenses or features, as appropriate, must be obtained to exceed usage limits.

ENOVIA 3d com products and ENOVIA PPR Hub MultiPDM plug-ins licensing

All ENOVIA VPLM products are concurrent-user licensed in a manner similar to license use in CATIA
V5. The license keys of ENOVIA 3d com configurations and shareable products are installed on the
server and can be accessed by thin clients (no code is installed on clients). A license for one
user gives one connection line. Any offline user is required to have a ENOVIA 3d com license access
with which code can be downloaded. Code should not be duplicated from a previous download.

When accessing other systems via ENOVIA 3d com products, you need to have a license or required
authorization on that system. For example, to work with data in ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM, ENOVIAPM, or
Optegra, a license for the corresponding user role within those systems is needed. The ENOVIA 3D
com Navigator and CAD Viewing configurations can have an optional corequisite loaded on the server
for CAD access. For CATIA V5, the required CAD server is included and installed by default. When
used in conjunction with CATIA V4, you need to install CATIA COM license keys on the server. One
license of CATIA V4 COM authorizes 10 simultaneous connections. The ENOVIA 3d com Space Analysis
product has an optional corequisite of the corresponding CATIA Space Product (5691-SPA) for CATIA V4
(with the same 10:1 ratio of users per license). If data such as CAD models are to be loaded into
the authoring system such as CATIA V5, the corresponding product configuration and license must be
available.

The ENOVIA 3d com Web Search (part of the ENOVIA PPR Navigator product) function can be installed on
CPUs other than the server to which an authorized user connects. The user task uses the search
function to go through its ENOVIA 3d com Web Browser for the correct connection. Because of this
capability, the search function is restricted to users defined on the ENOVIA 3d com server. This
restriction applies even if the search component is physically installed on a CPU other than ENOVIA
3d com Navigator server.

ENOVIA DMU products licensing principles

ENOVIA DMU Navigator Configuration licenses continue as already announced and in use within the
ENOVIA VPLM Portfolio. Working under the CATIA V5 concurrent-user licensing scheme, ENOVIA DMU
products use the same methods. This provides a consistent user seat designation across both CATIA
V5 and ENOVIA VPLM. ENOVIA DMU products such as Kinematic Simulation or DMU Optimizer, licensed as
shareable in CATIA V5, now also work and can be shared within the ENOVIA DMU environment.

ENOVIA PPR Hub MultiCAx plug-in licensing principles

All MultiCAx Plug-ins are licensed as concurrent-user shareable products available to ENOVIA 3d com,
CAD Viewing, and ENOVIA DMU users. Specifying a MultiCAx license in the profile enables the
workstation to use the MultiCAx capabilities within any simultaneous sessions on the same
workstation (of ENOVIA 3d com Products, CAD Viewing, or ENOVIA DMU Products).

ENOVIA VPLM general licensing principles

ENOVIA VPLM add-on (AOP) and shareable products may require prerequisite products that are not
included in a standard purchased configuration. When a prerequisite product is not included in the
selected standard configuration, both the AOP and its prerequisite products must be purchased and
included as AOPs within a custom configuration. Prerequisites for shareable products can be
satisfied by a standard configuration, by an AOP within a custom configuration, or by a shareable
product.

Use of DB2 UDB components

ENOVIA LCA V5.17, ENOVIA V5 VPM V5.17, and ENOVIAVPM V1.6 are shipped with the DB2 Universal
Database® (DB2 UDB) program. (Both ENOVIA LCA and ENOVIA V5 VPM ship DB2; ENOVIA 3d com and
ENOVIA DMU do not ship DB2.) You are authorized to use this DB2 UDB only in conjunction with and in
support of the Solution (as defined below), and are authorized to install and use this DB2 UDB only
in association with your licensed use of the ENOVIA VPLM products for the storage and management of
data used or generated by the Solution and not for any other data management purposes. Only inbound
and outbound data transactions in which the Solution directly either creates, reads, updates or
deletes data are permitted.

Examples of uses not permitted include (i) inbound connections to the database from other
applications for queries or report generation, or (ii) outbound database connections in which the
Solution provides no added value to the data transaction.

The Solution and DB2 UDB can be installed on either the same server or separate servers. In the
case where DB2 UDB is installed on a separate server, the access point to the DB2 UDB server must be
solely through the Solution server.

Solution is defined as any ENOVIA VPLM or ENOVIA SMARTEAM program product other than those listed as
follows:

SMARTEAM  Development Suite, a component of the IBM program product SMARTEAM  Development
Suite Configuration (5691-SDV)

All CAA RADE products and APIs

Educational allowance available:
No.

Volume orders:
Contact your IBM representative.

Warranty applies:
Yes

Licensed program material availability

Restricted materials of IBM: None

Non-restricted source materials: None

Object Code Only (OCO): All

Program services:
Program services offer a method of reporting code-related problems for ENOVIA VPLM and WLS
licensed software products. Program Services are available electronically using the problem
submission process at the PLM Technical Support Web site at

Note:
In order to use this facility, you must use an IBM ID which has
associated to it the licensed IBM customer number under which the product
was purchased. If you have not yet obtained an IBM ID, visit

If you have not yet associated the licensed IBM customer number to
your IBM ID, you will be prompted to do so when accessing the problem
submission facility.

When using Program Services, the problem report is submitted via the PLM
Technical Support web site; all subsequent communications will be via
e-mail. The response time for these problem reports, regardless of the
severity, will be within two business days. All communications must be
in English.

Not all options of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technical
support e-services are available in all countries.

If the problem reported is not known to be a code-related problem, the
customer will be informed that work will continue on it provided the
customer has ECSR (Electronic Customer Support Representative) enhanced
support (reference PRPQ 5799-C88) with the ENOVIA VPLM support feature.
Enhanced support for WLS is included in the base product's feature code;
no separate enhanced support is required.

For additional information about the enhanced support contract and other
available PLM services offerings visit

Click on the "ECSR enhanced support details" link or contact your PLM
marketing representative or authorized IBM Business Partner for more
information.

Preventive Service is delivered through the next release of ENOVIA VPLM
products. The new release also includes corrections to problems,
depending on the time of their submission and their severity.

During the Program Services period, Corrective Service for ENOVIA VPLM
releases is delivered through service packs on a regular basis. A
service pack includes corrections for Blocking Problems in production
systems reported on this release and all corrections available for all
components at the time it is built. Service packs are provided at the
same time for all platforms currently supported. Each service pack
supersedes the previous one and may be installed on top of the released
level or on top of a previous service pack. (The exception is WLS
products, where Corrective Service is provided in the next release of the
product. No maintenance for WLS products is provided in the service
packs.)

Customers may request a correction via a service pack for Blocking
Problems. A Blocking Problem is defined as:

A problem that stops production: The customer is currently using the
level for which a fix is requested in a production environment.

A problem that prevents migration: The customer must provide the
migration plan.

A problem that halts testing of a given level: A fix will allow customer
to continue the testing.

Installation problem: A problem that prevents the customer from
installing or using the product.

Regression: Problems reported as regressions may be due to an operation
that was being performed erroneously or created incorrect data with a
previous release and the current release no longer permits these
operations. Therefore, each problem reported as a regression must be
evaluated. True regressions will be handled as Severity 1 problems.

Note:
Customers experiencing problems with DB2 UDB V8.2 delivered with the
ENOVIA LCA V5 product may report these problems through PLM product
support, as long as DB2 UDB is being used in conjunction with ENOVIA LCA
and the DB2 and ENOVIA LCA products are still within their respective
support periods. Customers will receive the same level of support as
they are entitled to for their ENOVIA VPLM products.

Customers experiencing problems with IBM License Use Management (LUM)
products when used with ENOVIA VPLM products may report these problems
through PLM product support. Note this only applies when the LUM product
is being used in conjunction with an ENOVIA VPLM product and the ENOVIA
VPLM product is within its support period. LUM products are not included
in the enhanced support offering; LUM problems will receive the Program
Services level of support and must be submitted via the Problem Reporting
process at the PLM Technical Support Web site at

Contact your IBM representative for charges information for this
announcement.

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